Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 1379 - 934: The Fallen Feathered Serpent Divine Statue, the Collapse of the Eastern City-State

In the seaside lands of December, there are gentle winds and light rain. The light rain scatters in the wind, falls into the burning Ke Shi City, and gradually dyes the blood on the city wall."Chief Divine, protect us! Charge, charge!..."

The large group of Totonac vanguards, clad in simple paper armor and raising their bronze long spears high, fiercely charge into the besieged Ke Shi City. They show no mercy, stabbing to death the tribal warriors resisting in the city, dragging the despaired surrendering Totonac Divine Descendants out one by one, and performing blood sacrifices in front of the pyramid of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent...

"Praise the Chief Divine! We have captured the Stone City! Praise the God of Death, Your Majesty! Praise the Seaside Alliance!..." ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ novelhall.com

Finally, with the most fervent cries, the towering gold and silver statue in the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, is pulled down by the vanguard warriors using ropes, inclined and toppling slowly!

"Boom... Bang!"

The sacred and towering statue of the Feathered Serpent finally collapsed with a crash! Under the tension of the ropes, it rolled straight down from the tens of meters high pyramid, then fell heavily onto the plaza at the center of the city-state, shattering into several pieces! And the bearded head of the Feathered Serpent statue stuck at an angle into the mud, unwillingly gazing at everything in the city, alongside the blood-dripping heads of the Divine Descendants...

"Praise the Chief Divine! The Divine protects the Seaside Alliance! We toppled the Feathered Serpent statue! And the statue of the Chief Divine will truly rise in this converted city-state!"

The statue shattered, heads rolling. Witnessing this impactful scene, tens of thousands of tribes in Ke Shi City wept in despair! While four thousand vanguard warriors surging into the city were praying and shouting in frenzy!

"Chief Divine, protect us! The Seaside Alliance shall prevail!"

Afterward, they marched out of the burning city-state with strings of prisoners. Meanwhile, thousands of the seaside militia carrying bags of prepared sand entered the city obediently. Next, they would swiftly extinguish the fires in the city, clean up the corpses, and weed out any lurking enemies...

Once everything is in order, the main forces of the Kingdom’s eastward expeditionary warriors will enter the city. They will rest briefly for a few days to regain their strength, and then set out on another expedition!

"Chief Divine, protect us! This Ke Shi City resisted for over twenty days, and we finally captured it smoothly!..."

"Go, take that previously surrendered chieftain of Ke Shi City, the war elephant Teotlara, and sacrifice him at the city gate! The Kingdom’s army asked him to persuade Ke Shi City to surrender, but he hesitated, having accomplished nothing and wasted my time for days... Hang his head at the city gate, along with the one newly appointed as the chieftain of Ke Shi City!"

"As you command, Leader!"

"Relay my orders! Send two units of trusted aides into the city to secure the granaries and warehouses! As for the estates of the Divine Descendants and the nobility, follow the old rules! All entering units, distribute according to merit and casualties!..."

"Yes, Leader!..."

"Don’t rush off! Praise the Chief Divine! Prepare the War Priests accompanying the army to begin the conversion of the tens of thousands of tribes in the city! According to the information, there should be about thirty thousand of them... Make them all take the blood oath to convert!"

"As you command, Leader!"

Outside Ke Shi City, the Black Wolf Torc stood under the banner of the legion, clad in armor and carrying a bow, skillfully arranging everything after the city’s fall.

Afterward, he looked towards the prosperous city-state close by, watched the flames in the city gradually extinguish, the legion’s cheers of excitement came in waves, yet he had no interest in entering the city. On the contrary, he touched his chin, observed the highly-spirited Totonac vanguard warriors with both surprise and thoughtful contemplation.

"Chief Divine! His Highness’s governance and military command... are indeed miraculous! These surrendered wolf cubs, just after some reorganization and selection around Golden Bay City, and when they returned... their morale was already so high? It seems they can participate in battles independently, guard territories without the supervision of the Kingdom’s warriors... and will not easily collapse..."

Thinking of this, a flicker of curiosity and doubt shone in Black Wolf Torc’s eyes. He glanced again at the exploded clay tribulus fragments on the city wall, recalling the days when the vanguard camp’s warriors, holding Divine Power Globes, charged gallantly shouting for the Chief Divine’s protection... Such unforgettable impressions only deepened! The morale of these Totonac surrendered troops compared to a year ago, it’s like heaven and earth...

"Mu Xi! Mu Xi! Where’s the vanguard Camp Commander Mu Xi? Let him come here! Let him come here and see me!..."

Black Wolf Torc pondered a while, then summoned the leader of the five thousand vanguard warriors, Mu Xi, the earliest surrendered general from Five Mountains City. Mu Xi, wearing Mexica-styled cloth armor, approached the Black Wolf Legion Commander respectfully, performing a formal kneel.

"Mighty Black Wolf Leader! You called for me?"

"Hmm! Chief Divine, protect us! We captured Ke Shi City..."

Black Wolf Torc nodded, a hint of a smile on his lips. With the success of the siege, his stern face seemed somewhat softened, becoming less intimidating.

"Mu Xi, your vanguard camp fought very well!... Hmm, the morale of these wolf cubs is very high! Is there any special method?..."

"Yes! Black Wolf Leader! It’s all thanks to the God of Death, Your Majesty’s protection!..."

Camp Commander Mu Xi pondered and respectfully replied.

"His Majesty, the God of Death, integrated the tribes, establishing the Seaside Alliance! Each tribe’s chieftains, sages, leaders, and priests are vying to pledge allegiance to the Seaside Alliance!..."

"It’s said, His Majesty possesses powerful divinity, destined to unify the Totonac coast’s Divine Descendants!... And his child, imbued with the blood of the seaside, will be the first King of the Totonac people! Almost all sages, storytellers by the bonfire, are singing such ballads!..."

Hearing this, Black Wolf Torc frowned. He knew the origins of these ballads and was well aware that this child of the Divine Bloodline was now conceived in the belly of the Snake Woman Miyava.

"Serpent Mother Miyava... His Majesty’s offspring..."

Black Wolf Torc narrowed his eyes, recalling the Serpent Mother Chieftain who once stood on top of the pyramid, head lowered in submission, feeling an instinctive distrust. If not for His Majesty’s orders, he was ready to offer that seemingly troublesome woman directly to the Chief Divine...

After a moment of contemplation, Black Wolf Torc shook his head, looking again at the respectfully standing Mu Xi.

"Mu Xi, witnessed by the Chief Divine! Just because your wolf cubs heard these ballads and saw those fence-sitting sages and leaders, did their morale become this high?"

"Uh... not exactly..."

Camp Commander Mu Xi thoughtfully considered this for a while, then carefully answered.

"Black Wolf Leader, although His Majesty has only been here for a year... everyone feels that... this seaside land is destined to change! Those old city-state priests, the old nobility of the Divine Descendants, those once high-ranking nobles, are probably no longer valid and will fall into the mud... While the entire seaside land will be united by His Majesty, forming as never before a powerful Seaside Alliance!..."

"As for us warriors, simply following His Majesty and you, we’ll be like the epic’s first generation warriors who founded a great alliance, destined to become... hmm... the new Noble Bloodline!"

"And what I’ve pondered... the Kingdom’s unification of the seaside trends like... like the summer storm by the coast, unstoppable! Especially with this year’s autumn harvest, all civilian settlements and villages have reaped abundant harvests... This indescribable but commonly felt premonition, like the Chief Divine’s omen, grew even stronger!..."

"So, the warriors now fighting so valiantly are eager to earn a place in the God-blessed rising Seaside Alliance and achieve battle merits for a change in destiny and rewards! His Majesty’s military meritorious granting of lands and slaves is indeed very generous! As long as one earns battle merits, those Fourth Level Warriors, Third Level Nobles are high positions one could never have imagined before, offering so much hope!"